Good news on the climate front can be hard to come by—in Cancun or on Capitol Hill. So here's something: At least we know, as of last week, that John Shimkus of Illinois won't be chairman of the powerful House energy and commerce committee. At a subcommittee hearing last year the GOP congressman— a contender for the gavel that will now go to Michigan Republican Fred Upton—invoked the Bible to justify a do-nothing approach to climate change. "Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood," the congressman intoned.
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